Professor Anne Poelina PhD, PhD, MEd, MPH&TM, MA, Chair and Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Knowledges Nulungu Institute of Research, University of Notre Dame. Adjunct Professor, College of Indigenous Education Futures, Arts & Society, Charles Darwin University, Darwin. Peter Cullen Fellow for Water Leadership.
Anne is the inaugural First Nations appointment to the Murray–Darling Basin Authority Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences (2022). She is also a member and Visiting Research Fellow of the Institute for Water Futures, Australian National University, Canberra; and is a Member of the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water as part of the Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Water Interests (CAWI).
In 2023, she was nominated as Ambassador for the Western Australian State Natural Rangelands Management, and in 2019, she became a founding member of the Western Australian government’s Aboriginal Water and Environment Advisory Group (AWEG). In 2018, she became the inaugural Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council.
Anne has been recognised for many of her achievements and contributions, including receiving a Laureate (2017) from the Women’s World Summit Foundation, Geneva; the Women Taking Climate Action Award (co-winner 2023) awarded by the Zonta Club of Melbourne on Yarra and the Zonta International District 23 Zonta Says NOW team; and the Kailisa Budevi Earth and Environment Award, International Women’s Day (2022) in recognition of her global standing.
